He writes: " LOB — Riggs of course.

* LOB %— Left on base percentage: LOB % represents the percentage of baserunners a pitcher does not allow to score.

Stranded baserunners might be notated as being " LOB " ( Left On Base ) for that inning, with a number from 1-3 likely at the bottom of the inning column.

If a baserunner's teammate is put out for the third out of the inning, he is said to be left on base ( LOB ).

In baseball, a baserunner is said to be left on base ( abbreviated LOB ) when the half-inning ends, he has not scored, and he has not been put out.

If, during the final half-inning of a walk-off game, a batter hits a game-winning single with the bases loaded to break the tie, any men left on do not count as LOB in statistics.

A related statistic is " left on base in scoring position ", which includes only those LOB where the runner was occupying second or third base.

Team LOB, however, counts only those left standing on the bases when the third out of an inning occurs.

For example, if two runners are left on base after the 3rd out, the scorekeeper might note " LOB: 2 ", then at the end of the game calculate a total number of LOB for the game.

The Brown Corpus has also spawned a number of similarly structured corpora: the LOB Corpus ( 1960s British English ), Kolhapur ( Indian English ), Wellington ( New Zealand English ), Australian Corpus of English ( Australian English ), the Frown Corpus ( early 1990s American English ), and the FLOB Corpus ( 1990s British English ).

The number of a team's plate appearances is to equal the sum of that team's runs, that team's LOB, and the opposing team's putouts.

Most offices for legislators and their aides are also housed in the LOB, though some legislative leaders choose to be based out of the State Capitol itself.

In other words, every batter who completes a plate appearance is accounted for by a run scored or by being put out or by being LOB.

An individual accumulates LOB stats no matter how many outs in the inning.

LOB % tends to regress toward 70 – 72 % over time, so unusually high or low percentages could indicate that pitcher's ERA could be expected to rise or lower in the future.

* Brown Corpus, forming part of the " Brown Family " of corpora, together with LOB, Frown and F-LOB.

In season 2006 / 07 the club won their first cup competition in their history when they won the LOB Intermediate Cup.

The Lady of the Bracelet pageant ( commonly referred to as LOB ) is a long-standing competition which scholarships are awarded to female students.

Most of the General Assembly's committee and caucus meetings are held in the modern Legislative Office Building ( or LOB ), while the House and Senate sessions are held in the State Capitol.

Each committee has its own office space, with most being located in the LOB.

It is largely similar to the earlier Brown Corpus and LOB Corpus tag sets, though much smaller.

Team LOB totals are commonly reported in a baseball box score.

Individual LOB statistics can also be tracked.

Team LOB is used in " proving " a box score.

" Stranded " is sometimes used to mean LOB.

There is an individual LOB category as well as a Team LOB category.

Accordingly, adding together the individual LOB for all players will usually exceed team LOB.

FBI records show that 85 % of COINTELPRO resources targeted groups and individuals that the FBI deemed " subversive ," including communist and socialist organizations ; organizations and individuals associated with the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr. and others associated with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Congress of Racial Equality and other civil rights organizations ; black nationalist groups ; the American Indian Movement ; a broad range of organizations labeled " New Left ", including Students for a Democratic Society and the Weathermen ; almost all groups protesting the Vietnam War, as well as individual student demonstrators with no group affiliation ; the National Lawyers Guild ; organizations and individuals associated with the women's rights movement ; nationalist groups such as those seeking independence for Puerto Rico, United Ireland, and Cuban exile movements including Orlando Bosch's Cuban Power and the Cuban Nationalist Movement ; and additional notable Americans — even Albert Einstein, who was a member of several civil rights groups, came under FBI surveillance during the years just prior to COINTELPRO's official inauguration .< ref >

The ruling blocs continually denied Stalin ’ s opponents the right to organise as an opposition faction within the Party — thus, the re-instatement of democratic centralism and free speech within the Communist Party were key arguments of Trotsky ’ s Left Opposition, and the later Joint Opposition.

The Left Party ( then the Party of Democratic Socialism ) has had several years of experience as a junior coalition partner in two federal states — Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania — where it co-governed until 2006 with the Social Democratic Party.

The Left Party suffered serious losses in the 2006 elections for the city-state government of Berlin, losing nearly half of its vote and falling to 13 percent — slightly ahead of the Greens.

Higher Superstition argued that in the 1990s, a group of academics whom the authors referred to collectively as " the Academic Left " was dominated by professors who concentrated on racism, sexism, and other perceived prejudices, and that science was eventually included among their targets — later provoking the " Science Wars ", which questioned the validity of scientific objectivity.

As a critic of both fascism and what he called the culture industry, his writings — such as Dialectic of Enlightenment ( 1947 ), Minima Moralia ( 1951 ) and Negative Dialectics ( 1966 )— strongly influenced the European New Left.

' So wild conspiracy theories and visions of genocide are really excuses for the Left to disregard the rules of democracy and defeat conservative Christians — by any means necessary.

Left behind were about 115 colonists — the remaining men and women who had made the Atlantic crossing plus White's newly born granddaughter Virginia Dare, the first English child born in the Americas.

" — On the No Child Left Behind Act, Washington, D. C .; September 26, 2007

Gaitskell blamed the Left for the defeat and attempted unsuccessfully to amend Labour's Clause IV — which committed the party to massive nationalisation of industry.

If there is more than one runway pointing in the same direction ( parallel runways ), each runway is identified by appending Left ( L ), Center ( C ) and Right ( R ) to the number — for example, Runways One Five Left ( 15L ), One Five Center ( 15C ), and One Five Right ( 15R ).

Feuerbach became associated with a group known as the Young Hegelians, alternately known as the Left Hegelians, who synthesized a radical offshoot of Hegelian philosophy, interpreting Hegel's dialectic march of spirit through history to mean that existing Western culture and institutional forms — and, in particular, Christianity — would be superseded.

* Shari Benstock, Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900 — 1940.

* documents from SLATE — the UC Berkeley student political party ( 1958 – 1966 ) and the first of the student organizations in the rising New Left and student movements

The emergence of the New Left -- which was bitterly hostile to Johnson, to capitalism and to universities — angered Podhoretz by its perceived shallowness and, especially, by its hostility to Israel in the 1967 war.

Situated on the Rive Gauche — the " Left ," or Southern, bank of the River Seine — this central arrrondissement, which includes the historical aristocratic neighbor of Faubourg Saint-Germain, contains a number of French national institutions, among them the French National Assembly and numerous government ministries.

One of the pieces of easy-listening vibraphone music accompanying this feature —" Left Bank Two ", composed by Wayne Hill and performed by the Lance Gambit Trio — has passed into British TV theme lore.

The Vietnam War was unprecedented for the intensity of media coverage — it has been called the first television war — as well as for the stridency of opposition to the war by the " New Left ".

* Giddens, Anthony ( 1994 ) Beyond Left and Right — the Future of Radical Politics.